Thoreau: Political Writings

Henry David Thoreau

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Henry David Thoreau
Edited by Nancy L. Rosenblum, Brown University, Rhode Island

Publisher:: Cambridge University Press
Online publication date:: June 2012
Print publication year:: 1996
Online ISBN:: 9781139170857
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139170857

Series:: Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
Subjects:: History, Politics and International Relations, Texts in Political Thought, Early Republic and Antebellum History, History of Ideas and Intellectual History

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Thoreau's political writing is intensely personal and direct. Both his life and work focus uncompromisingly on the question 'how should I live?', and for Thoreau, no element of day-to-day existence is left untouched by moral and political issues. This 1996 edition of Thoreau's political essays includes 'Civil Disobedience', selections from Walden, 'Life Without Principle', and the anti-slavery addresses, such as 'Slavery in Massachusetts'. In her introduction, Nancy L. Rosenblum places the essays in the context of Thoreau's life of self-examination, and the debates about the abolition of slavery, and she analyses the themes of citizenship and resistance that have made Thoreau an enduring influence in political philosophy and practice.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-v

Acknowledgements
pp vi-vi

Introduction
pp vii-xxxi

Chronology
pp xxxii-xxxiii

Bibliographical note
pp xxxiv-xxxvi

Resistance to Civil Government (Civil Disobedience)
pp 1-22

Selections from Walden

Economy
pp 23-80

Higher Laws
pp 81-90

Conclusion
pp 91-102

Life without Principle
pp 103-122

Slavery in Massachusetts
pp 123-136

A Plea for Captain John Brown
pp 137-158

Martyrdom of John Brown
pp 159-162

The Last Days of John Brown
pp 163-169

Index
pp 170-175

Cambridge Texts in the History of Political Thought
pp 176-180

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